Lower Merion's assistant planner Christopher Leswing, on the Manayunk bridge, has plans for a feeder trail to connect the township directly into Philadelphia's pathway system - a symbol of city-suburban cooperation.Ĭhanging Skyline: Making an urban link by bike path MICHAEL BRYANT / Inquirer Staff Photographer “All together it’s eight sections, it would be $20 million and we think there would be a whole lot of people that would benefit if we can get these projects funded within the next year, with the next transportation bill.” Going north, there are pieces that are missing around Manayunk and into Montgomery County. to Fort Mifflin, and then our little piece where the park ends now, at Locust Street, down to South Street, then all the way down to Bartram’s Garden. “There are several sections of the park starting in the Southwest. “They have set their sites on creating the region’s first green transportation corridor,” said Stuart. There are bigger plans in the works, too. The SRDC has so far raised $4 million of the $10 million needed for construction. The boardwalk, extending 50 feet into the river, would have a concrete surface, 15 feet wide and four to nine feet high off the water, depending on the tide. “has unveiled the conceptual design of the boardwalk it plans to build between Locust Street and the South Street Bridge,” according to the Alliance Web site, where you can see a slide show of a Nov.
